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Watch The First Previews Of The Cape

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Watch The First Previews Of The Cape on www.capesite.net. The Cape is a new super hero show starring Dave Lyons and science fiction favorite Summer Glau. NBC has picked it up for next season, but don’t expect to see it until the spring, since it’s a mid-season replacement show.

Go to the link and see a few scenes from the pilot that will get you in the mood to wait 8 months until you can watch it on TV. Hopefully as it gets closer to airing, we’ll get some more information and scenes.

DVDs You Should Own – Samurai Jack

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Samurai Jack is proof that Genndy Tartakovsky is an animation god. While Pixar and Dreamworks are upping the ante on computer animation with more and more realistic drawings and effects, Genndy Tartakovsky works with simple, hand-drawn animations that are more expressive than any computer animation has ever been able to do. And with news coming out a couple months ago about Tartakovsky’s newest series coming to Cartoon Network, I thought we should take a look back at Samauri Jack.

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DVD You Should Own – Duckman Season One & Two

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Duckman is a private eye and family man. And he wants to know “What the hell are YOU looking at?!?”. What started as a one shot comic by creator Everett Peck was then brought onto TV by the team that later brought us Rugrats and punctuated with a soundtrack by Frank Zappa (season one only). It’s a funny and irreverent show that couldn’t keep it’s humor past the second season and never had the cult following of other shows, but it’s a wonderful show.

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Dr Who after 3 episodes

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As I mentioned in my review of the first episode, I am new to Dr Who. I’ve now watched the first 3 episodes with the new Dr. and am truly enjoying it (and wondering why I didn’t get into it sooner). The 3 episodes have been standalone (for the most part) and don’t require a lot of history to follow, but the longer term storylines have been popping up (and a couple references that I don’t understand since I haven’t seen previous seasons).

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DVDs You Should Own – The Tick live action series

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The Tick live action series only lasted for nine episodes, but it is a under-appreciated gem. Patrick Warburton was fresh off his role of Puddy on Seinfeld when he stepped into the big blue costume as the clueless, but lovable Tick. The network was hoping for a Seinfeldesque series, but then (unlike what happened to Seinfeld) canceled it quickly with low ratings. The acclaim and following from the short lived series pushed the DVD series to come out in 2003 and it’s a must own for all fans.

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Superheroes for Kids Week: Batman: The Brave and the Bold

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Batman: The Brave and the Bold is a Cartoon Network series for younger kids. It doesn’t feature continuing storylines or even our hero’s alter egos (for the most part). It is a simple and fun story with good guys and bad guys. The teaser usually has one (or two heroes) with the main story featuring a different hero to team with Batman. It’s is closer to the modern comic book mythology (using the new Blue Beetle for instance), but will occasionally use older characters.

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Dr. Who – Eleventh Doctor

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The new Dr. Who series with the Eleventh Doctor started in the UK on two weeks ago. It’s finally appearing on BBC America now. Never having watched Dr. Who before (Hi. My name is Mark and I’m a science fiction fan who’s never seen a Dr. Who episode), I thought this might be a good place to start with a new entry point. So, how is it?
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DVD You Should Own – Firefly

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Firefly was Joss Whedon’s 3rd TV series (after Buffy and Angel) and was the first one set in a different universe. The basic concept was a science fiction western (which was based on Whedon’s reading the book The Killer Angels), but was never appreciated by the TV executives. The episodes were aired out of order when they were not rejected. But, in an unprecedented turn of events, a TV show that was cancelled for low ratings mid-season sold so many DVDs that a feature film was created about it. What was it that made the fans so excited?

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy the BBC Series

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy the BBC Series was my first introduction to Douglas Adams’ famous story. It came after the radio series and novel and plays and record, but for some of us, it was the introduction to a comic masterpiece that is as funny today as the day we first read it. PBS showed it here in the US in late 1982 and I still remember dying laughing at the comic situations. And when I found out there was a novel, I was beyond ecstatic about reading it. But does the series stand up almost 30 years later after 7 novels and a Hollywood movie?

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A look back at The Sarah Connor Chronicles

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was a wonderful flawed, exciting and ultimately disappointing show. It had two great performances from it’s actors, but two disappointing ones as well. It lasted two seasons, which was about one and half seasons more than most people expected. The show was one of the few explicitly religious shows on television and mixed it wonderfully with a science fiction premise, but there were too many stretches of seasons where the show seemed to drag and that ultimately doomed the show.

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